The upright piano in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is being donated to the Smithsonian.
The producers and creative team are donating the piano — constructed out of wood and plastic and not actually playable — to the Smithsonian’s. After the paperwork is finalized and the Broadway run starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington ends on Jan. 29, the piano will be sent to the museum, whose collection also features artifacts from such varied Black theatrical milestones as “Porgy and Bess” and “The Wiz.
The idea for the donation began with Richardson Jackson and her husband, Samuel L. — they are major donors to the African American Museum and Richardson Jackson sits on its Museum Council — and Brian Moreland, one of the show’s lead producers. Kenneth Irvine Chenault, chairman of the Museum Council, hailed the donation. “The prospect of receiving this magnificent piece of theater history into the collection of the Smithsonian African American Museum is exciting,” he said in a statement. “It’s an important reminder of the significance of the Black voice in theater, and due recognition of the brilliance of August Wilson.
“The sculptures are essentially family trees carved out of a log, representing the family or the village or the area,” Boritt said. The notion was developed of a piano that itself was sculptural and that at the end of the show would “come alive” with sound, smoke and lighting effects. Boritt gave assistant set designer Romello Huins the task of digging deeper into the research. “What I wanted him to do,” Boritt explained, “was to understand the heritages of the piece.
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